The decision was the first by a federal appellate court upholding the constitutionality of a state law mandating a physician's description of an ultrasound, said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, a New York nonprofit that represents the physicians challenging the Texas law.
Hence, I disagreed with the now-overturned Florida law that had prohibited physicians from asking patients about gun ownership.
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Although New York hospitals and health care professionals follow the federal law, critics say the state's more restrictive state law has a chilling effect on physicians and patients.
Drug reps were a rich target for wage-and-hour suits because they are prohibited by law from selling anything directly to physicians, and tend to follow predetermined scripts instead of devising their own marketing strategies.
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The law should neither prohibit nor mandate that physicians ask about guns.
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Experts say it is increasingly important for patients to lock in a primary-care doctor soon because of expected increased demand for physicians starting in 2014, when the new federal health-overhaul law will add millions of people to the health-insurance rolls.
"We're opening up an unprecedented window into what goes on in the therapy room, " said Dr. Paul S. Appelbaum, director of the Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
The rules against non-lawyers investing in the business of law parallel similar restrictions on doctors, which were designed to make sure physicians answered only to their patients.
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They went so far as to go on record with the Texas Insurance Commissioner, promising that such a law would go a long way towards reducing the malpractice premiums they charged physicians, thereby reducing the cost of medical care to the consumer.
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But this latest gridlock had the AMA on high alert, because t he federal government had already said it would not hold claims and Medicare carriers were expected today to begin processing payments for physicians services after Dec. 31 under the typical 14-day cycle required by law.
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The legislation had bipartisan support at the time, including from lawmakers who favor abortion rights but who gained assurances that the law wouldn't be used to undermine abortion laws or to interfere with physicians' judgments about how to treat premature babies.
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Indeed, the only category of physicians where we find more physicians believing that the ACA was a step in the wrong direction are the surgical specialist who believe the law is bad news by a wide margin of 60 percent to 28 percent.
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The Oregon law was the first in the nation to authorize patients to end their lives with the assistance of physicians.
Rules range from the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) which can be a major source of confusion on privacy and security issues, to the 1989 Stark Law which regulates doctor referrals, to the Corporate Practice of Medicine laws which prohibit businesses from employing physicians, and forbid doctors from splitting fees with non-doctors.
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